Definitions for dews

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dews dew

Spelling: [doo, dyoo]

IPA: /du, dyu/

Dews is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in dews (desw).

Definitions for dews

noun

1. moisture condensed from the atmosphere, especially at night, and deposited in the form of small drops upon any cool surface.
2. something like or compared to such drops of moisture, as in purity, delicacy, or refreshing quality.
3. moisture in small drops on a surface, as tears or perspiration.
4. Informal. Scotch whisky. mountain dew.

verb (used with object)

1. to wet with or as with dew.

Origin of dews

before 900; Middle English; Old English dēaw; cognate with German Tau, Old Norse dǫgg

Examples for dews

It is cool and fresh with the dews of morning and of evening.

Night came on with her thousand stars, and brought me the dews of sleep.

The stains of sordid traffic shall be cleansed by the dews and the rains.

At present, the dews are descending, and we will return to our divan, and take some coffee.'

These two fed on the dews of the morning; a woman and a man they were.

The dampness of the grave-yard clung to me, and the night dews were beginning to fall.

Father, put on your hat; the dews are falling, and you are not as young as you used to be.'

Often the clothes of the workers are quite wet with the early morning dews.

The dews are very plentiful, advantageously supplying the place of rain.

It is the dew, Chanito; it is almost as abundant as the night dews in the Terre-Chaude.